Let's see......what do we have this time around?
Turning Japanese: there is a song from Japan's Jackey Yoshikawa in English, except for the last verse which is in Japanese, and there is a song from the American New Christy Minstrels sung in Japanese that was a big hit in South Africa.
Also from the Asian side is another one from Singapore's favorite female singer, Naomi. Small Faces did well in Malaysia with Patterns and the b-side of Claudine Longet's cover of Hello Hello, a song called Wanderlove that has a far-out-sitar-in-it-man, did well in Singapore. Good ol' Claudine. She kills me.
New Zealand's La De Da's and Mr. Lee Grant had hits there on charts dominated by US and UK hits.
In South Africa, in addition to the New Christy Minstrels song, there were hits from Jody Wayne (called Cookie which is very creepy), Peter Lotis, and The Square Set doing a good song called Silence Is Golden that has nothing to do with the song by the 4 Seasons.
The usual crap from Ireland, although the country-ish Funny Man from Johnny McEvoy is a pretty good song.
From the Scandinavian charts there are 3 records from Denmark, 4 from Sweden and 2 from Norway. One of the Swedish hits was by ex-Manfred singer Paul Jones.
British singer David Garrick hit in Switzerland with Please Mr. Movingman.
There are 4 records from Holland, but 2 of them are by Kenyan-British singer Roger Whittaker.
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